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BECAUSE representative government starts with the Legislative Branch, TIME has had an enduring interest in Congress-in its leaders, its foibles, its glories, its failures. Our first issue, dated March 3, 1923 (Time Inc. had been founded four months before), carried on its cover Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, who was then 86 and about to retire to Danville, Ill., after a colorful and historic career. Since then we have published some 150 cover stories and many other major articles on Capitol Hill and its leaders. This week Uncle Joe reappears on our cover, framed by the pictures...
...Stuart Hughes Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, presented a resolution to the Faculty at the December 12 meeting urging it to reaffirm the University's commitment to Afro-American Studies. Nwafor said yesterday that the resolution should be modified to say that the Department be "equipped to bring fresh viewpoints to bear in the study of its subject...
James C. Thomson Jr., lecturer on History, and H. Stuart Hughes, Gurney Professor of History, circulated the statement prior to yesterday's regularly scheduled meeting of the Faculty Council. Since the Council takes positions only on matters related directly to Harvard, it did not discuss the statement or vote on it as a body...
...opening shots were also fired In what promises to be a bitter debate over the future of the Afro-American Studies Department. H Stuart Hughes, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, told the Faculty that on behalf of the Faculty Council he plans to introduce legislation calling for substantial changes in the Department's structure...
...only living son Jack (Peter O'Toole), an odd sort who runs about in monk's habit sublimely certain that he is God. "He's a paranoid schizophrenic," his doctor diagnoses, to which Jack's Uncle Charles sputters indignantly: "But he's a Gurney...